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Summertime and Stockholm is easy

Summertime and Stockholm is easy

29 May 2010 by Joel Willans

After a long wait summer has finally arrived. What better place to spend it than a city where the days just go on and on and on.

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Stockholm Sweden

The day I learnt to cockfight

The day I learnt to cockfight

13 May 2010 by Joel Willans

Joel Willans never thought he’d be a cockfighting man, but then the featherweight championship came to town.

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Andahuaylas

Ladies take centre stage at this year’s Helsinki Festival

Ladies take centre stage at this year’s Helsinki Festival

7 May 2010 by Peter Sterling

The Finns come to life in the summer months after what is invariably a long, cold winter. Visitors to the country’s cities will begin to observe smiles on the faces of the normally rather dour inhabitants, and hark – could that be joyous music drifting into earshot?

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Helsinki

The World’s Most Magnificent Book Shop

The World’s Most Magnificent Book Shop

23 Mar 2010 by Joel Willans

If you always thought bookstores were cramped and dowdy, El Ateneo will change your mind forever.

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Argentina Buenos Aires

Monte Carlo: princely pickings from the pennypincher’s perspective

Monte Carlo: princely pickings from the pennypincher’s perspective

22 Mar 2010 by Peter Sterling

You need to be rich to hang out in Monaco, right? Wrong!

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Monte Carlo

Just the ticket for sumptuous dining

Just the ticket for sumptuous dining

9 Mar 2010 by Joel Willans

Le Train Bleu is possibly the world’s most sumptuous train station restaurant. The ambiance is magnifique, the food delicious. So why’s one trip enough?

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France Paris

The real McCoy or a cunning fälscher?

The real McCoy or a cunning fälscher?

25 Feb 2010 by Peter Sterling

Vienna’s Museum of Art Fakes is all set to pull the wool over your eyes

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Vienna

Drop dead gorgerous

Drop dead gorgerous

22 Feb 2010 by Joel Willans

I’m neither a Goth nor a Satanist, but I do love a good graveyard. And if you secretly dig graveyards too, I guarantee my four favourites will knock you dead.

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Buenos Aires Helsinki London Paris

The world’s longest yard sale

The world’s longest yard sale

2 Jan 2010 by Joel Willans

It’s amazing how much you can tell about a person from the stuff they display in a yard sale. Imagine how much you can tell about a country when the yard sale is 654 miles long!

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Alabama Ohio U.S.A.